David Goodman wrote:
In addition, Almost all public libraries in the UK
should have the
full current
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography
available to them. The list of entries in that dictionary is available
to anyone at
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/index/.
Not all the names there have full articles; some are merely mentions
or paragraphs. The ones with full articles have of course always been
held notable for WP purposes.
If it weren't for the fact that it would be
suggesting more work for
more volunteers that we don't have I would be suggesting that we put the
whole old version up to 1930 on Wikisource. But it's already slow going
for those gradually adding in the 1911 EB.
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